On Morning Joe, Howard Dean accuses Tea Party members of not "playing with a full deck." Dean also gets into an argument with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele. At one point Dean offers to pay for a Godfather's Pizza dinner if the Republican candidate wins the White House, and maniacally sticks out his tongue.
Morning Joe plays a clip of President Obama defending his administration's decision to make a half-billion dollar loan guarantee to solar company Solyndra. Says Obama: "if we don't get behind clean energy, if we don't get behind advanced battery manufacturing, if we're not the ones creating the cars of the future, then we're not going to be able to make stuff here in the United States of America…
On Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, Harrison Schultz, an organizer of the Occupy Wall Street protests, says:"A lot of the people that are here are in fact anarchists, are in fact revolutionaires. And putting a revolutionary, putting a revolution change into political terms is very difficult to do. Because we're trying to get away from all the problems. Again, we don't really want to fix them. It's…
On Morning Joe, former Obama car czar Steve Rattner stands by his depiction of Ron Suskind's book "Confidence Men," on bad times in the White House, as a "drive-by shooting" of President Obama and his advisers.
Meet The Press moderator David Gregory states that Republicans have a "harsh stance" on immigration reform.
A United States Postal Service TV commercial urges people to use mail rather than email because "a refrigerator has never been hacked. An on-line virus has attacked a cork board."
In a clip aired on Good Morning America, liberal pundit Michael Kinsley claims Chris Christie's weight suggests he lacks the self-control necessary to be president.
MarkF | September 30, 2011 On his MSNBC show "The Daily Rundown," Chuck Todd criticizes the Romney campaign's use, in an ad, of former Mexican President Vicente Fox praising Governor Rick Perry for extending in-state university tuition to illegal immigrants.
MarkF | September 29, 2011 On Morning Joe, documentary film-maker Ken Burns draws parallels between Prohibition, the topic of his new documentary, and themes in current conservative politics. He ignores the fact that Mika Brzezinski, sitting on the set and interviewing him, is a modern-day prohibitionist, who would ban cigarettes, soft drinks, transfats, fast food, ec. Burns also claims to be "non-political."
MarkF | September 27, 2011 On his MSNBC show, Al Sharpton, referring to people [Maxine Waters] who have spoken of being 'unleashed' in their criticism of President Obama, accuses them of hypocrisy and warns he and others might have to 'speak up' if they don't change their ways.
